Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Noreste article
Subject Matter: Military collusion with Los Zetas
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
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For crimes against health in respect of collaboration, a Military court martial condemned eight elements to 26 years in prison, the defence will appeal the sentence in the following five days before the Superior Military Court.
After more than 60 hours in the audience of the Counsel for War, the first Military Court for the First Military Region estimated that there had been enough evidence to sentence the military men, to uphold the charges and levy fines of 15,000 pesos, the men will be held in Federal prison of Villa Aldama, Veracruz.
The sentenced are Lieutenants in the infantry, Javier Rodriguez Aburto, Marco Agusto Perez Cisneros, Carlos Miguel Gallardo Ibarra and Edgar Valencia Cardenas, Pedro Montes Vazquez and Omar Alejandro Martinez.
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They are part of a group of 16 soldiers detained on the 13th of March of 2011, from the 69 Battalion of Infantry in Saltillo, Coahuila, for alleged collaboration with the criminal organization of Los Zetas.
In his resolution, the Counsel for War absolved the Lieutenant Julian Castilla Flores of organized crime and crimes against health, and ordered his immediate liberation.
In the case of Castilla Flores, from Coahuila, asked for a transfer to Chiapas where he was detained, the defence was able to verify that he was not part of the alleged network that provided information to Los Zetas of the operations they performed.
The remaining seven who did not go to the Court Martial, had sought an amparo, and expect that by the end of the year they will be tried.
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During the processing of the eight military infantry Lieutenants, Socrates Humberto Lopez Escobar and Francisco Javier Soto Nunez, it was reported that they have Istanbul protocol practised by the National Human Rights Commission, which established there were acts of torture at the time of their arrest.
In the case of the eight sentenced, experts from Sedena carried out tests in which the existence of alleged acts of torture against them was proven, but that they were part of the network that had relations with Los Zetas , and that was not enough for the Judge to dismiss the charges against them and issued the sentences.
Original article at Noreste
Subject Matter: Military collusion with Los Zetas
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
For crimes against health in respect of collaboration, a Military court martial condemned eight elements to 26 years in prison, the defence will appeal the sentence in the following five days before the Superior Military Court.
After more than 60 hours in the audience of the Counsel for War, the first Military Court for the First Military Region estimated that there had been enough evidence to sentence the military men, to uphold the charges and levy fines of 15,000 pesos, the men will be held in Federal prison of Villa Aldama, Veracruz.
The sentenced are Lieutenants in the infantry, Javier Rodriguez Aburto, Marco Agusto Perez Cisneros, Carlos Miguel Gallardo Ibarra and Edgar Valencia Cardenas, Pedro Montes Vazquez and Omar Alejandro Martinez.
In his resolution, the Counsel for War absolved the Lieutenant Julian Castilla Flores of organized crime and crimes against health, and ordered his immediate liberation.
In the case of Castilla Flores, from Coahuila, asked for a transfer to Chiapas where he was detained, the defence was able to verify that he was not part of the alleged network that provided information to Los Zetas of the operations they performed.
The remaining seven who did not go to the Court Martial, had sought an amparo, and expect that by the end of the year they will be tried.
In the case of the eight sentenced, experts from Sedena carried out tests in which the existence of alleged acts of torture against them was proven, but that they were part of the network that had relations with Los Zetas , and that was not enough for the Judge to dismiss the charges against them and issued the sentences.
Original article at Noreste